High Street bank Lloyds has widened a compensation scheme for victims of the HBOS Reading fraud after pressure from campaigners. 

The £245m scandal saw a gang of bankers wreck small businesses and spend the proceeds on prostitutes, holidays and luxury goods. 

Fraud: The £245m scandal saw a gang of bankers wreck small businesses and spend the proceeds on prostitutes, holidays and luxury goods

Fraud: The £245m scandal saw a gang of bankers wreck small businesses and spend the proceeds on prostitutes, holidays and luxury goods

Fraud: The £245m scandal saw a gang of bankers wreck small businesses and spend the proceeds on prostitutes, holidays and luxury goods

Lloyds, which bought HBOS in 2009, is acting after its original scheme was found to be ‘neither fair nor reasonable’. 

The review by former judge Sir David Foskett only intended to look at cases involving HBOS managers Lynden Scourfield and Mark Dobson and turnaround firm Quayside Corporate Services.

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